Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Nigeria and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Moody Blues. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
One Last Wish,
Model 500,
Letta Mbulu,
Drexciya,
Peter & Gordon,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Moody Blues,
Connie Case,
Morten Harket,
Hashim,
Loose Ends,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Mark Hollis,
Duran Duran,
Spoonie Gee,
Lou Reed,
Bob Dylan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Andrew Hill,
Trumans Water,
T. Rex,
This Heat,
Juan Atkins,
Tubeway Army,
Barrington Levy,
Wire,
The Fortunes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Kerri Chandler,
Echospace,
Dawn Penn,
The Saints,
the Normal,
Jandek,
Dual Sessions,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Roxy Music,
Accadde A,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soulsonic Force,
Interpol,
Toni Rubio,
Negative Approach,
Severed Heads,
The Techniques,
Make Up,
The Music Machine,
Todd Terry,
Dennis Brown,
Con Funk Shun,
The Golliwogs,
The Index,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Johnny Osbourne,
Sun Ra,
The Modern Lovers,
Marmalade,
the Human League,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.